Background

Mr. William Robert Benz II, also known as Bill, serves as the Chief Executive Officer at PIMCO Europe Ltd. Mr. Benz serves as the Managing Director, Head of PIMCO EMEA, and European Head of Client Servicing at Pacific Investment Management Company Company LLC. He serves as a Managing Director, Account Manager, and senior member of the Pacific Investment Management's investment strategy group. In addition to his institutional client servicing responsibilities, Mr. Benz ... oversees Pacific Investment Management wide client servicing efforts. Having joined PIMCO in 1986, he was previously responsible for PIMCO's European client servicing group and, prior to that, oversaw PIMCO's U.S. client servicing efforts out of Newport Beach, California. Mr. Benz previously worked at Bank of America. He has been Director of Global Investors Series plc since April 17, 2009. He served as a Member of the Management Board - Pimco Advisors at PIMCO Advisors Holdings, LP since April 1999. Mr. Benz is a C.F.A. and C.P.A. charter holder. Mr. Benz has an Undergraduate Degree from the University of California, Berkeley and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

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